John e



J. E. TUCKER. SMOOTHING STONBYOR IMPLEMENT.

No. 49,956. Patentecl Sept. 12, 1865.

UNITED STATES PATENT ()F ICE.

JOHN E. TUCKER, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND O. H.MOORE, SAME PLACE.

SMOOTHING STONE OR IMPLEMENT.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 49,956, dated September12, 1865.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JoHN E. TUCKER, of Boston, in the county of Sutt'olkand State of Massachusetts have invented an Improved Implement forIroning or Smoothing Clothes; and I do hereby declare the same to befully described in the following specification and represented in theaccompanying drawings, of which-- Figure 1 is a top view, Fig. 2 a sideelevation, Fig. 3 alongitudinal section, and Fig. 4a transverse section,of it.

Sad-irons or flat-irons are usually constructed with cast-iron bodies,and with handles either fiized in or removable from them.

In carrying out my improvement I make the body of the article ofsteatite or soapstone, and combine therewith alnetallic socket for thereception of a separate handle, to which I apply a set-screw orothersuitable or ready means of fastening the handle in the socket.

The handle may be fastened directly to the stone body so as to beinseparable therefrom preparatory to carrying on thelprocess of heatingthe body; but I prefer to fix in the said body a suitable socket forreceiving the handle, and to enable it tobe removed from the body sothat the latter may be heated independently of the handle.

In the drawings, A denotes the soapstone or steatite body; B, themetallic dovetailed socket inserted and cemented in such body 0 is thehandle,which is connected to a dovetailed bar, I), which fits in thesocket, which isto be so made as to enable the bar to be drawn endwiseout of it.

E is the clainp-screw,'which is screwed down through the 'middle of thebar D and against the bottom of the interior of the socket, and servesto confine. the handle-bar to the socket.

The advanta'ge'of making the body of the article of steatite is .thatitwill retain heat much longer than will a metallic body, and besideswhile hot and in use will not scorch the clothes or fabrics ironed orsmoothed by it. In consequence of the body being much lighter than onemade of iron, the article can be handled or used to better advantage.

I claim- The combination of the stone or steatite body A, the metallicsocket B, and'handle 0, arranged and applied together, substantially asspecified.

JOHN E. TUCKER.

Witnesses:

R. H. EDDY, .F. P. HALE, Jr.

